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Aug
15
We Interrupt Your Previously Scheduled Feminism
To wish my boyfriend, who is looking very much like a villain in this picture, a very happy birthday!
He is 31 today, or as he put it earlier ‘almost 50.’ So happy ‘almost 50th’ birthday to the man who thinks nothing of wearing a bright pink shirt with ‘This is what a feminist looks like’ printed in rather large letters across the front to play a show with his band, regardless of what his band mates may think or say to him about it.
And with that, I’ll share with you my favorite quote of all time which also says a lot about why me and the boyfriend get along so well–Well, besides the enormous amount of hours we can spend playing video games together and feasting on junk food.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
– Anais Nin
Jul
28
Super Cool New Look!
I had started a very small project a few days ago that was supposed to take about an hour or two, tops. However, because this always seems to happen at the most opportune moments, simply changing the theme here up a little bit proved to be a little more difficult than I had first anticipated.
Instead of Menstrual Poetry being the feminist/political/what-have-you blog of me, Holly, the chick who writes this stuff, I really wanted this website to be mine, as well as yours. Yes, yours!!! Menstrual Poetry could not, would not, ever ever ever survive without the support of the people who visit this site and comment. We are sadly living in a world that frowns upon our basic rights and freedoms and because of that, now is the time to truly start a revolution and get as many people as possible who have minds of their own and want to voice their opinions and concerns in a platform that will respect what you have to say. Your freedom of speech is important and must be celebrated and because of that, I really want Menstrual Poetry to come across as a platform for me to not only speak my mind, but for respectful visitors to do the same. Following this thought, I have added a great deal of links in the right hand side of the sidebar to be used as resources for all things women, violence awareness and prevention, as well as a ton of great, super awesome blogs that I read and think you should too.
So here it is, the new look with a ton of great resources and blogs and happy, happy stuff. From this point forward, I promise to update more. Promise!
Jun
7
Apologies for Lack of Posts
Things have been a wee bit busy over here in Menstrual Poetry-land and I wish I had more time to update as much as I would love to, but sadly, with only 24 hours in a day and needing to sleep for at least some of those hours, it just isn’t possible.
In the middle of working, working and more working and being yolked to Twitter, I began hearing more and more about a new social site, Plurk. Upon a closer inspection, I saw it as a site that desperately wanted to be Twitter, but with two days in and a new addiction formed, it is far better than Twitter–In my opinion, of course.
Here’s my widget:
I think everyone out there should sign up and be my friend! It’s fun, I promise.
Jun
1
Feminism at its Finest: May 2008
The Feminism at its Finest blog carnival is a day late, so we’re just going to pretend that it’s still May; just for today! Of course, thanks to everyone who submitted their posts and to submit your posts for the June edition, which will be up on June 30, just go here.
I would also like to clarify that in order to submit your blog posts, you do not need your own domain, a Blogspot, Wordpress or whatever else is out there; even if you just wrote something on your MySpace blog and it is feminism-related, please feel free to submit it as well; not enough people give the MySpace bloggers a chance to really take part in the blogosphere happenings, so here it is. And now, on with the carnival…
A. Lee presents American Conceptual Artist & Feminist Barbara Kruger Probes Your Views posted at eArtFair, saying:
“Barbara Kruger juxtaposes mass media photographs with biting slogans. Her art both questions and condemns mass media’s ways of control self-identity, desire, and public opinion. A key aspect of her work centers around the question of what it means to be feminine.”
Amanda Moore presents 106 Organizations That Are Changing the World - Are you helping? posted at VagabondetteVA.
Garry presents Whirled News - President, Candidates Address Gasoline, Climate Crisis posted at Chicks With Guns.
Ian Welsh presents Ok, Enough With the Stupidity About Clinton’s “Kennedy Statement” posted at The Agonist, saying:
“The level of near hysteria, of complete unwillingness to read Hillary Clinton’s words in any context with any good will that is sweeping large portions of the political blogosphere, reflects a deeper pathology.”
Lauren Martin presents Liberty Lowdown: Magic 8-ball, primaries, and you posted at Blog for Choice, the newly improved pro-choice blog from NARAL Pro-Choice America!
Madeleine Begun Kane presents Next, They’ll Claim Obama Inherited Clinton’s Reverend posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.
nandita presents Domestic Violence in the Press a Century Ago posted at law Matters.
Nine Deuce presents The First Amendment is only sort of cool. posted at Rage Against the Man-chine.
O. Daille Nation-Ashley presents David vs Female Lawyer (Goliath?) posted at Power Of Attorney: Not Happy Hour At The Bar.
Renee presents I Wish I Was In Dixie posted at Womanist Musings, saying:
“This post is about internalized racism and how it cause some to act in ways that are detrimental to POC. It stands as a legacy of slavery.”
Renee also presents MacFarlanes Babes posted at Womanist Musings, saying:
“I posted on the Family Guy spin off because I believe that people mindless consume pop culture without realizing how damaging the images are that they are consuming. When we internalize without thought we are accepting negative portrayals of others as normal.”
Shaheen Lakhan presents Domestic Violence and Executive Dysfunction posted at GNIF Brain Blogger, saying:
“Executive function has big implications for the design of domestic violence programs. It is important to know the subtypes of batterers because different subtypes have different needs for treatment, and different levels of intervention that are necessary to ensure safety.”
Shaheen Lakhan also presents Democracy vs. Domestic Violence posted at Brain Blogger, saying:
” People are looking at how we are affected by the groups we belong to that are treated unequally and subjected to various kinds of stress and discrimination — a field called intersectionality.
Tali presents 10 Strangest Pinup Artist Quirks | Artists, Cartoons, posted at The Pinup Blog, saying:
“Visual artists can’t hide behind their work, at some point, some one will notice, a fetish, a habit a quirk. Missing belly buttons, fake breasts, detached heads- This is a list of the 10 most fucked up pinups in classic cheesecake history.”
Tracee Sioux presents Empowering Girls - Hillary Clinton posted at Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me, saying:
“Don’t Quit. It’s a good message for all women and girls.”
Tracee Sioux also presents Hillary’s “Feminine Ideal” Sin posted at Blog Fabulous, saying:
“What was Hillary’s big crime in the face of women? She didn’t self-deprecate.”
Tracee Sioux also presents Real Breasts Gallery posted at Blog Fabulous, saying:
“We’re so inundated with images of “perfect” breasts in the media and marketing that most people’s idea of what real women look like has been distorted. Women stand in front of a mirror and compare themselves to the unreal and declare “I just wish mine were normal.” For a better perspective enter the Real Breasts Gallery.”
And that’s all for this month. Remember to submit your posts for next month’s carnival by going here
May
23
Guest Blogging at The BoBo Files
I’m hanging out over at The BoBo Files today and bringing some happy feminism sunshine over to the dreary conservative-geared politiblog. Come join me!
May
15
Computer Viruses, I Hate You.
Obviously I have not been updating this site as much as I used to nor as much as I should be and the reason for that is the dreaded computer virus.
For the past three days I noticed that my Firefox has been acting incredibly weird, I couldn’t look at pictures because apparently every picture on the face of the internets contained errors (more like my Firefox contained errors) and then yesterday as the boyfriend and I were playing Empire Earth, my computer kept locking the game up and kicking me out of it; which of course was very irritating since I had built an impressive amount of towers and then of course the enemy was coming over to knock them all down and I had to defend the land I had originally started talking from them, dammit! After we gave up on the game, the boyfriend noticed someone logging into PayPal from my computer, although I wasn’t checking it. After a six hour process of running virus scanners it turned out that I had not one virus, but thirteen! Thirteen viruses, six hours and now my computer is finally all clean and Firefox is acting normal again.
Updates on more important things to come.
May
10
The Infamous ‘Obama Girl’ and Mike Gravel
I think I just may love this man. Shh, don’t tell my boyfriend.
Seriously, though, to come across a politician that is so likable and all around seems like one of the nicest men you can meet; not to mention that his ideas for the presidency blow most of the other ideas out of the water, is astounding.
May
7
WrongCards Aren’t Only Wrong, They’re Disgusting
I came across this site a few days ago and while the website name alone should have tipped me off to the type of content I would find there, I was pretty disturbed by a few of the images that I saw.
With a name like WrongCards, sure, you can suspect that the content is going to be pretty far from politically correct, but what I found completely crossed the line from wrong to sick and disgusting.
Apparently we can add date rape to the list of things people find funny right alongside of sex criminals and being kicked in the stomach while pregnant.
However, WrongCards doesn’t stop there; they also have another card that reads “I’m still waiting to be sexually harassed.“
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